Cuba News

Dr. Jaime Suchlicki from the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies talks to a group of unhappy college students just back from a Potemkin Village tour of Cuba that was sold to them as a "people-to-people" to encounter: Last week, I hosted at the University of Miami a group of 15 students from Wabash College in Indiana ... (more)

When written, his comebacks seem mean-spirited. In real life , he gave them with a twinkle in his eye as if we were both in on the joke.

The Washington Nationals lost one player, catcher Adrian Nieto, in the major league phase of this morning's Rule 5 Draft, then selected two players, one each, from the Cincinnati Reds and New York Mets' organizations in the minor league phase of the draft.

Attacks by left-wing rebels on Colombia's oil pipelines have increased more than five-fold since 2010, and are up from 2012, amid slow-moving peace talks.

European Union President Jose Manuel Barroso on Thursday called on rebel group FARC to successfully conclude peace talks aimed at ending ongoing violence in Colombia.

The Cuban government has cracked down hard on dissidents who dared to go out on December 10th, the day when the world celebrated Human Rights Day, according to sources from the island who have posted on the social networks.

As many as 150 dissidents were arrested while trying to mark U.N. International Human Rights Day, the opposition Cuban Human Rights and National Reconciliation Commission said Wednesday.

Burlesque is back in South Beach, this time in a modern interpretation. Edison Farrow, the renowned nightlife promoter, and businessman Ed de Caso have partnered to bring life to " The Cabaret South Beach ," a performance venue where singers and musicians entertain audiences with live music shows seven days a week.

The U.S. general who opened the Guantanamo detention camp said Thursday it was a mistake and should be shut down because "it validates every negative perception of the United States."

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S homage to Nelson Mandela on Tuesday was moving and heartfelt. He celebrated a "great liberator" who demonstrated the power of words, ideals and actions to change history.

'He just says what they taught him': Boy at center of infamous international tug-of-war has been trained to say what Cuban leader tells him, American relatives claim The American relatives of Elian Gonzalez have claimed that he was taught the pro-Cuban line he adopted in interviews this week by Fidel Castro and his brother Raul.

Tuesday's greeting between Obama and Castro comes after six months of quiet diplomacy between the United States and Cuba-and Castro signaling he's ready for bigger talks.

The most significant political achievement of the year is the rapprochement in relations between the US and Iran after the signing of a temporary deal on the Iran nuclear programme, which had bedeviled relations between the two for a long time.

Latin Art Space Travel Programs are sanctioned by the US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, through the people-to-people cultural exchange travel license.

Pictures, reportedly, showing the leader of the Bulgarian extreme-right nationalist Ataka Party, Volen Siderov , on a Cuban beach stirred a fresh scandal in the country.

For travelers who are personally acquainted, Cuba's 21st century brand of tropical Marxism remains as ambivalent as it is alluring: a Caribbean party island where 1950s American cars splutter alongside horse-drawn carriages and sleek art deco towers flank crumbling colonial mansions emblazoned with revolutionary iconography.

ORGANISERS of the Red Bull World Cliff Diving Series have confirmed they will not be returning to the Blue Lagoon, Abereiddy, in 2014.

A commander's statement to "60 Minutes" about the extent that Guantanamo Bay prison guards are suffering from PTSD proved to be unsupported.

The Federation of Culinary Associations of the Republic of Cuba and the Cocinarte Academy of Gastronomy in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, signed an agreement to build closer ties and collaboration.

Cuban police detained dozens of dissidents, beat up others, blocked their telephones and sealed off their homes Tuesday to forestall a string of protests and other gatherings planned to mark International Human Rights Day.